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How to Install FreeBSD on an IP330: Because there is no easy alternative to booting the FreeBSD installer, and because the network devices as detected and initialized by FreeBSD won't work properly without manual intervention, this document instructs you to accomplish the installation using CD-based media.
How to Automatically Install FreeBSD Using WDS and PXELINUX: The FreeBSD installation diskettes or "boot-only" CD can be converted into a hard disk image and booted via PXE using the PXELINUX and MEMDISK utilities. The boot loader and images can then be hosted by a Microsoft Windows Deployment Services (WDS) or Remote Installation Services (RIS) installation. Further customizations are possible, such as unattended installation and local distribution of the installation files.

How to Join an Active Directory Domain Under FreeBSD: You can join a computer running FreeBSD to a Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory domain using the net/samba3 port configured with Active Directory and winbind support. Both PAM (for authentication) and NSS (for directory information) are supported. This how-to assumes that Windows Services for Unix has already been installed and configured on a suitable domain controller, and that the relevant Unix attributes have been specified for domain users and groups.
How to Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate: Use OpenSSL to generate an X.509 certificate and to convert it into the PKCS#12 format required by Microsoft's Internet Information Service.
How to Configure IAS and Passport 1000-Series Switches for RADIUS Authentication: On the switch command-line interface, use "config radius enable" to enable the RADIUS client, and use "config radius server create" to set the IP address and shared secret of the Windows IAS server. After creating the client entry and a corresponding custom profile in IAS, enable all authentication types and add a vendor-specific attribute to the profile; use 1584 for the vendor code, 192 for the attribute number, the decimal attribute format, and a value of 6 for "rwa" access.

How to Replace Sendmail with Postfix Under FreeBSD: While FreeBSD's default Sendmail configuration is relatively secure (in that it opens a submission-only listener on the loopback interface), Sendmail is difficult to configure and has a history of security-related problems. I replace Sendmail with Postfix and configure it to relay mail through a proxy instead of delivering mail directly.
How to Install Mailman Using Postfix Under FreeBSD: GNU Mailman is a simple mailing list manager that offers list administration from the UNIX command line, via a web browser, or through email. It supports most common UNIX MTAs, including Sendmail and Postfix. I installed Mailman on my FreeBSD- and Postfix-based mail servers.